In the middle of Gary Webb's book "Dark Alliance" on the CIA's involvement in the spread of the crack epidemic. So many implications.
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@emptywheel And same thing then - like Air America and the French Connection had never happened. -
@matthewstoller@emptywheel one real time critique of Webb's reporting was that CIA drug history was missing. I think he agreed.
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@emptywheel OMFG how could the intelligence community be doing what the intelligence community has always done? You're crazy! -
@matthewstoller Remember when after 9/11 they said (mouths watering) that CIA had to start working with bad people again? -
@emptywheel It makes the whole debate over the NSA seem insane. Let's hammer out a compromise on civil liberties with psychopaths...
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EO12333 also key to intelligence related front companies in war on drugs i.e. Southern Air Transport + NSA ops
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